Re: GUI on MacOS X !

[John Swensen]

> On Oct 2, 2017, at 8:07 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 2, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Ben, 
>> 
>>> On 23.09.2017 Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> That may not be a Mac OS X specific problem, just generally that Octave 
>>> clean up at exit isn't quite correct yet for the Qt GUI.  There has been a 
>>> change to objects now rather than static variables.  Perhaps those changes 
>>> have enabled your GUI, but still need perfecting.  If you have an error 
>>> message, create a bug report.
>> 
>> Daniel's patch at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50025 works for me. I 
>> created a new macOS dmg build and uploaded it to
>> 
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/lzjbykxkqxr402h/octave_gui_430_applebas.dmg?dl=0
>> 
>> It contains a recent snapshot and the patch (md5sum 
>> ab7f41944d441d1b7c0068a3c7e18511). Please test!
>> 
>> Thanks and Bye
>> Sebastian
> 
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> Thanks for taking a look. I a big work crisis surprised me since my last 
> email. I had hoped to work on this as well, but that will need to wait.
> 
> However, I do have time for testing.
> 
> The 4.3.0 version does not open for me. I'm on a borrowed Mac.  The bundle 
> did verify and I went to System Preferences to bypass the security measures, 
> but after that there was no response.
> 
> I am able to run the old 4.0.3 GUI version. 
> 
> Ben

I thought mine wasn’t working, but it took about 5 minutes to start up the 
first time. Every time after that it started up almost instantaneously. 
Probably the same font list building issue as older versions? 

I am on 10.12.6 (Sierra) on a Late-2013 MBP

John S.